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Early this year, we reviewed the ECS
NF2 mainboard which is quite a well built board. Today, we take a
look at the first retail SIS 755 K8 mainboard that has made its way to our labs
right before Chinese New Year. We took time off from our busy schedule to give
it a look before we take our yearly break in the next few days.

As we know, ECS is well known for its
good cost/performance ratio. ECS 755-A2 is definitely the board that most SIS
supporters are waiting for. From our few days of working with the 755-A2, I
personally feel that the board would be the next K7S5A or L7S7A2. Apart from the
standard IDE connectors, this board supports SATA RAID 0 or 1 with 2 SATA HDDs.

At first glance, the ECS 755-A2 looks
like any plain old ECS boards we have seen so far. This board is less cluttered
with the power connectors all on one corner of the board. As we normally do, we
removed the double sided tape underneath the NB heatsink and replaced it with
thermal paste and an active heatsink/fan.

As we knew from our readers that
bought the 755A, 755-A2 does not have any of those memory performance issues
faced by our 755-A readers. So far, we are
getting very good results and it is comparable or faster compared to the SiS 755
Ref board. This is amazing as the ref board and the ECS 755-A2 are all running
at 199.9 and 200.0 MHz respectively.